Salah Yousri Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1923 - d. 1984

Salah Yousri, was born in Cairo in 1923 and graduated with a degree from the Fine Arts School of Cairo in 1947. Upon his graduation, Yousri had a solo exhibition at Galerie Goldemberg in Cairo, and later on left for Paris to study in the atelier of famed Parisian cubist artist Andre Lhote. It is through his exposure in Paris that Yousri really developed his oeuvre and style. Initially emulating Lhote’s cubist mannerism stylistically; Yousri’s true spirit slowly appeared, as his fascination with the “pure” ancient Egyptian folkloric aesthetic became his primary source of inspiration. Upon his return to Cairo after a year in Paris,